Halle Berry Says It’s ‘Heartbreaking’ That She’s The Only Black Woman To Have Won An Oscar For Best Actress
etcanada.comHalle Berry is still the only Black woman to ever win Best Actress at the Oscars despite over 90 years of the Academy Awards.
Berry became the first Black woman to win a Best Actress Oscar in 2002 for her work on “Monster’s Ball”. The iconic actress was passed on at the Golden Globes, so she said she was under the impression that an Oscars win was out of the question. READ MORE: Halle Berry Talks Balancing ‘Mom Guilt’ With Her Busy Career “Back in those days, if you didn’t win the Globe, you really didn’t get the Academy Award.
So I’d pretty much resigned myself to believing, ‘It’s great to be here, but I’m not going to win,'” Berry told the New York Times. “I don’t have any memory of it. “I don’t even know how I got up there.
It was totally a blackout moment. All I remember is Russell Crowe saying, ‘Breathe, mate.’ And then I had a golden statue in my hand, and I just started talking.” Berry said in her acceptance speech that her winning was a sign that the door had opened for women of colour.
Read more on etcanada.com